<p>No offense to the OP, but I would say people need to stick to what they actually know about in regards to posting guides, I think I’ll write a guide about OSes, desktop vs laptop, etc. etc. next week, people planning on going into programming, art, etc. take some of these generalizations people make worth a grain of salt. I wish people would stop talking about things they aren’t certain about.</p>
<p>here’s a few examples:</p>
<p>“Additionally, there is 0(and I literally mean 0) Viruses for the Mac.”
Wrong. There are plenty for Mac, it’s just they rarely are ever deployed because there is little advantage due to the number of users, and with the increasing number of users, the number of viruses will as well. Furthermore, for your information at a hacking competition last year, the first computer to fall was a Mac running Safari, and it was done in 5 seconds.</p>
<p>“Needless to say, if your studying programming, it’s going to be on a PC, so don’t buy a Mac.”
Wrong, I’m a computer science major senior and work in a major research lab, half of us are Mac users, including myself.</p>
<p>There are plenty of other examples, but I will stop angrily contradicting them and write a comparison article myself, not only between Windows and Mac, but also the most popular Linux distro.</p>
<p>While I appreciate the effort from the OP to help the community, it hurts the community to spread incorrect information to the masses.</p>